Advanced Guard Tower

Advanced Guard Tower
Defense
Faction	Global Defense Initiative
Role	Advanced automated defense
Health	4800
Machine Gun
Damage	Base Damage 10 Headshot x2.5 Kevlar Armor x0.7 Flak Armor x1.3 Lazarus Armor x1 Heavy Armor x0.1 Light Armor x0.1 Aerial Armor x0.1 Building x0 MCT x0
Projectile type	Bullet rounds
Projectile speed	14000
Range	7000
Rate of fire	0.15
Clip size	60
Rocket
Damage	Base Damage 220 Headshot x10 Kevlar Armor x1 Flak Armor x0.5 Lazarus Armor x1 Heavy Armor x0.3636 Light Armor x0.3636 Aerial Armor x0.3636 Building x0 MCT x0
Projectile type	Explosive - Rocket
Projectile speed	6000
Range	8000
Rate of fire	2.7
Clip size	1
Miscellaneous
Internal name	Rx_Building_AdvancedGuardTower
Jargon	AGT

The Advanced Guard Tower is the advanced base defense of the Global Defense Initiative.

Appearance

The Advanced Guard Tower is a tall structure, with a tall antenna to it's side. The doors are usually located facing away from where enemy vehicles would enter the base.

The interior consists of a single little square area with 2 purchase terminals and a Master Control Terminal on the center of the wall facing the door.

Function

The Advanced Guard Tower is the Advanced Base Defense for GDI. It is automated, firing upon enemies automatically. It fires a missile from it's top as soon as it detects an enemy, and rapidly fires bullets from it's hanging guns on all 4 corners as long as the enemy remains visible. It can always detect and fire upon cloaked stealth enemies. It becomes disabled if destroyed, or if the Power Plant is destroyed instead.

Strategy

Attacking

The front doors are usually facing away from the enemy vehicle entrance to the base, requiring vehicles to drive up to and around the structure to block the doors and fire upon the inside of it. The room is small so tank fire inside the door is fairly effective, yet it is very likely the enemy has laid Proximity C4 inside once your vehicle is destroyed. When right up against it's walls on the outside, it is less able to deal damage as it cannot fire easily below it.

In Flying maps, the structure has no ramps or other changes, and uses the identical structure in all maps.

Aside from bluntly attacking the base defense, other strategies include attacking other structures while safe behind cover, or attacking the Power Plant first to disable the Advanced Guard Tower for the rest of the fight, among other benefits.

After the building or the Power Plant is destroyed, infantry can much more freely infiltrate the base and roam around freely, as well as vehicles having open access, both limited only by the defense of the enemy players themselves.

Defending

In maps with Advanced Base Defenses, it's always suggested to use Proximity C4 to defend the small room inside, in case tanks dedicate to an attack and rush the front door.

When repairing, as long as the tanks don't dedicate to rushing the defense, the inside should be safe. When vehicles get to the door, it may be hard to keep the door closed as the room inside is so small, but definitely worth the effort. If refills are delayed and tanks start overwhelming repair units inside with damage, it may be worth to repair to keep each other alive until health refills are available.

Trivia

• It is possible to step out and step back real quickly to trigger the missile to collide with a wall, giving a greater opening until the missile reloads.
• The AGT scans enemies in the same way a Radar scans for objects in a certain radius. It does this relatively quickly, but it may sometimes happen that it does not fire it's missiles against enemies that only appear within it's line of sight for a very short period of time.

See also

• Advanced Guard Tower on the Command & Conquer Wiki
• Obelisk of Light, Nod counterpart